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Carrier dynamics in InS nanowires grown via chemical vapor deposition
Author(s) -
Othonos Andreas,
Zervos Matthew
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
physica status solidi (a)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.532
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1862-6319
pISSN - 1862-6300
DOI - 10.1002/pssa.201026048
Subject(s) - fluence , photoluminescence , femtosecond , nanosecond , nanowire , ultrafast laser spectroscopy , chemical vapor deposition , auger effect , relaxation (psychology) , materials science , auger , absorption (acoustics) , photon counting , molecular physics , photon , spectroscopy , optoelectronics , analytical chemistry (journal) , atomic physics , chemistry , optics , laser , physics , psychology , social psychology , quantum mechanics , composite material , chromatography
Abstract Transient femtosecond absorption spectroscopy and time‐correlating single photon counting (TCSPC) photoluminescence (PL) were employed to study InS nanowires (NWs) grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and determine the relaxation mechanisms in these nanostructures. Intensity dependent measurements revealed that Auger recombination plays an important role in the relaxation of photogenerated carriers at fluences larger than 0.4 × 10 15 photons/cm 2 . Calculations provided an estimated of the Auger recombination coefficient to be 1.1 ± 0.5 × 10 −31 cm 6 /s. At the low fluence regime TCSPC PL revealed three relaxation mechanisms with time constants ranging from ps to nanosecond providing evidence of the importance of non‐radiative decay channels associated with defect/trap states within the NWs.Auger recombination appears to dominate the carrier dynamics in InS NWs with increasing incident photon flux.